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On February 04 2015 05:45 Manijak wrote:Show nested quote +On February 04 2015 00:37 Miragee wrote:
I'm still 100 % sure that they should have created another fuly instanced game. It has soooo many upsides and almost no downsides. Besides, there are no games beside GW that do fully instanced third person cooperative online RPG. And they are even eagerly trying to kill off the remaining playerbase of GW. It's so dumb I don't know what to say anymore. True, I miss GW1 style too. The big downside however, is that unpopular parts of the world map will have close to zero population and that can be very annoying for missions/quests...
That's a downside but also an upside at the same time. I like how some places are deserted and your are alone in these outposts or maybe you will meet another stranger. For quests in these areas you can use henchies and for difficult quests you would always find people in main towns/forums etc.
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i still find myself occasionally playing gw1. i have 2 accounts with 50/50 and 2 gwamms. i pretty much quit gw2 after one week of its release... maybe the expansion will be promising who knows? it's nothing like gw1. its just a wow rmk in gw world
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Game just went Free to play. With the expansion on the horizon to be released on October 23rd, you can as of today download and play the base Guild Wars 2 for free. Of course, there are some restrictions put on these accounts like a smaller character slot limit and World vs World being accessible only after lv 60.
https://help.guildwars2.com/entries/95982157-Account-types-Free-Core-HoT
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Yay I can check out the game now.
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Its a great game, no reason not to try it out if you havent.
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I played a bit recently. It's truly a great game indeed, highly recommend it. I still don't know why I haven't sunk much time on it, but I have no doubt it would be worth it :D.
Edit: I was probably disappointed that for all its qualities, GW2 didn't approach GW1's magic for me. Like many here, I think they should have taken many more elements from GW1 over to GW2 than they did.
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I never got into it because they completely butchered the skill system and GvG, which were two things that I thought made Guild Wars great. But maybe I'll play some PvE here and there when I'm bored.
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This is probably an unpopular opinion, but honestly i feel the expansion is incredibly lackluster. It feels so light on content and feels as though that outside of the one raid they'll slowly be rolling out you'll probably be done with what there is to do minus grinding for legendaries in a week.
Granted you could argue that they'll be rolling out more raids and more content with the living world, but honestly after season 1 and 2 of living world i don't really trust living world to bring a lot of fun content(Not at an even remotely decent pace anyway) since i felt that like 90% of the living world stuff was boring as fuck or felt completely pointless in season 1+2.
Atm i think i'll just not buy the expansion unless it goes on sale down the line.
Also fuck the fact that the veteran's bonus is only unlocked from pre-purchasing.
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What's the veteran bonus btw? I just saw the one extra character slot. Is that it?
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I dunno, to me it feels like theres plenty of content coming thats in line with the GW2 way of doing things.
In terms of repeatable content you've got:
-Raids (Keep in mind these havent even existed in gw2 until now and the games done fine.)
-Challenges
-Guild halls
-New WvW zone(s)
-New & improved sPvP (GvG, new maps, better leaderboards)
+More i likely dont know about. Like dungeons..havent heard anything about those although there MUST be new ones. Theres obviously a ton of new gear (legendaries, costumes) to grind for too but that's hardly repeatable content.
On top of that you've got at least 4 new maps at launch, one new class, loads of new class "specializations" which mean loads of new skills and builds, new mechanics like gliders and shit and a lengthy storyline to tie it all together.
When you couple that with Arenanets great content patches that are both large & often i think its a pretty solid expansion.
I'll be buying it even without all this because over the last 3 years Anet has provided SO much content gradually and all they asked for was the base price and the content that came with that was well worth it anyway.
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GW2 is a great mmo but it could have been amazing if they kept the skill system from gw1. There is almost no skill customization in gw2 because 5 of your skills are predetermined by your weapon, then 1 is elite and 1 is healing skill which leaves you with only 3 fully customizable skill slots.
In gw1 you had 8 skill slots to customize. There were hundreds of skills and a big part of the fun was going around the world map and unlocking them by defeating different bosses etc, and then making your own builds. GW2 is great but why couldn't they use the amazing skill system from the original game which was one of its strongest aspects.
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On August 30 2015 21:20 Jimmy Raynor wrote:
GW2 is a great mmo but it could have been amazing if they kept the skill system from gw1. There is almost no skill customization in gw2 because 5 of your skills are predetermined by your weapon, then 1 is elite and 1 is healing skill which leaves you with only 3 fully customizable skill slots.
In gw1 you had 8 skill slots to customize. There were hundreds of skills and a big part of the fun was going around the world map and unlocking them by defeating different bosses etc, and then making your own builds. GW2 is great but why couldn't they use the amazing skill system from the original game which was one of its strongest aspects.
That's exactly the thing I miss the most.
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On August 30 2015 21:23 ZenithM wrote:Show nested quote +On August 30 2015 21:20 Jimmy Raynor wrote:
GW2 is a great mmo but it could have been amazing if they kept the skill system from gw1. There is almost no skill customization in gw2 because 5 of your skills are predetermined by your weapon, then 1 is elite and 1 is healing skill which leaves you with only 3 fully customizable skill slots.
In gw1 you had 8 skill slots to customize. There were hundreds of skills and a big part of the fun was going around the world map and unlocking them by defeating different bosses etc, and then making your own builds. GW2 is great but why couldn't they use the amazing skill system from the original game which was one of its strongest aspects. That's exactly the thing I miss the most.
Me too. I miss just trawling around RA or TA with random janky stuff. The skill/build system was really great.
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Totally agree that the skill system in GW1 was really interesting. I remember having a friend who would try all the FotM builds and trying to skill my dervish in a way that could beat it. It was always possible to counter any build with any class if you thought about it enough which I always thought was cool.
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I tried this game now that it's free. The game itself looks pretty good, although I would prefer the hard tab-selection system from GW1.
Also, playing Mesmer with a sword is WEIRD.
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I love how people are still falling for the "gw2 has no content" meme
It was pretty funny 3 years ago but it's a little old.
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its not really a F2P move because they didn't add in a bunch of microtransaction mechanics that were not in the game previously. i think this is a great and ballsy move by ArenaNet/NCSoft.
as more and more games have substantial free content any time an MMO moves to F2P is desperation it will be making that desperate move to a well served audience that spends exactly $0.
so 2 substantial NCSoft properties are removing an initial barrier to entry.. WildStar and Guild War 2.
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On August 31 2015 22:55 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
its not really a F2P move because they didn't add in a bunch of microtransaction mechanics that were not in the game previously. i think this is a great and ballsy move by ArenaNet/NCSoft.
as more and more games have substantial free content any time an MMO moves to F2P is desperation it will be making that desperate move to a well served audience that spends exactly $0.
so 2 substantial NCSoft properties are removing an initial barrier to entry.. WildStar and Guild War 2.
Usually going F2P is an indication that the game desperately lack players. It's not a good sign.
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On August 31 2015 23:31 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On August 31 2015 22:55 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
its not really a F2P move because they didn't add in a bunch of microtransaction mechanics that were not in the game previously. i think this is a great and ballsy move by ArenaNet/NCSoft.
as more and more games have substantial free content any time an MMO moves to F2P is desperation it will be making that desperate move to a well served audience that spends exactly $0.
so 2 substantial NCSoft properties are removing an initial barrier to entry.. WildStar and Guild War 2. Usually going F2P is an indication that the game desperately lack players. It's not a good sign.
That is mostly the case, so more in monthly sub games, which these 2 are not(ish)
In GW 2 i guess it's to hook new players that then buy the expansion and in WS you could always grind out your monthly fee in game.
Since we are discussing this anyway, i'd like to ask which of these has the "better" PvP cause i'm really bored right now and need a game ^^
Or maybe even something else? what do you guys play?
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On August 31 2015 23:31 Sufficiency wrote:Show nested quote +On August 31 2015 22:55 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
its not really a F2P move because they didn't add in a bunch of microtransaction mechanics that were not in the game previously. i think this is a great and ballsy move by ArenaNet/NCSoft.
as more and more games have substantial free content any time an MMO moves to F2P is desperation it will be making that desperate move to a well served audience that spends exactly $0.
so 2 substantial NCSoft properties are removing an initial barrier to entry.. WildStar and Guild War 2. Usually going F2P is an indication that the game desperately lack players. It's not a good sign.
Yeah but this is not the same really, because they're using the F2P as a way to allow players to discover the game with hope that they buy the expansion.
GW2 is doing really well in its niche on the MMO market, I never understood why people always looked at it like it was dying ever since it launched.
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